2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 15 and 16 December 2018 at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center.

Men's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	15 December (heats and semifinals) 16 December (final)
Competitors	83
Winning time	25.41 CR
Medalists
Cameron van der Burgh   South Africa   Ilya Shymanovich   Belarus   Felipe Lima   Brazil

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	25.25	Berlin	14 November 2009
Championship record	Felipe França Silva	Brazil	25.63	Doha	7 December 2014

The following new records were set during this competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
16 December	Final	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	25.41	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 11:31.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	5	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	25.97	Q
2	7	4	Felipe Lima	Brazil	26.09	Q
3	7	3	João Gomes Júnior	Brazil	26.11	Q
4	7	7	Johannes Skagius	Sweden	26.17	Q
5	9	6	Huseyin Sakci	Turkey	26.18	Q
6	9	1	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	26.20	Q
6	9	4	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	26.20	Q
8	8	4	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	26.25	Q
9	9	5	Oleg Kostin	Russia	26.30	Q
10	7	5	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	Germany	26.32	Q
11	7	6	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	26.34	Q
12	8	2	Yan Zibei	China	26.42	Q
12	9	3	Yasuhiro Koseki	Japan	26.42	Q
14	8	1	Masaki Niiyama	Japan	26.45	Q
15	7	2	Ties Elzerman	Netherlands	26.56	Q
16	9	2	Wang Lizhuo	China	26.57	Q
17	7	9	Andrew Wilson	United States	26.58
18	8	3	Michael Andrew	United States	26.62
19	7	1	Andrei Tuomola	Finland	26.66
20	9	7	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	26.70
21	6	4	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	26.74
21	8	6	Renato Prono	Paraguay	26.74
23	7	8	Grayson Bell	Australia	26.75
24	9	0	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	26.85
25	6	5	Wu Chun-feng	Chinese Taipei	26.88
26	8	8	Marek Botík	Slovakia	26.93
27	5	4	Youssef El-Kamash	Egypt	26.97
28	7	0	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	27.04
29	8	9	Nikola Obrovac	Croatia	27.06
30	8	0	Brad Tandy	South Africa	27.10
31	9	9	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	27.21
32	8	7	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	27.23
33	6	8	Édgar Crespo	Panama	27.27
34	6	6	Azad Al-Barzi	Syria	27.28
34	6	7	Thibaut Capitaine	France	27.28
36	6	2	Jolann Bovey	Switzerland	27.31
37	5	5	Carlos Claverie	Venezuela	27.37
38	9	8	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland	27.38
39	6	1	Darragh Greene	Ireland	27.43
40	3	0	Kirill Vais	Kyrgyzstan	27.50	NR
41	6	0	Carlos Mahecha	Colombia	27.55
42	6	9	Martin Melconian	Uruguay	27.60
43	6	3	Dávid Horváth	Hungary	27.71
44	4	2	Santiago Cavanagh	Bolivia	27.96
45	3	7	Benjamin Schulte	Guam	28.05
46	5	2	Ludovico Corsini	Mozambique	28.12
47	5	6	Serginni Marten	Curaçao	28.25
48	5	8	Sebastien Kouma	Mali	28.37
49	2	1	Zandanbal Gunsennorov	Mongolia	28.49
50	5	7	Epeli Rabua	Fiji	28.61
51	5	3	Malcolm Richardson	Cook Islands	28.63
52	5	9	Samuele Rossi	Seychelles	28.67
53	2	7	Amini Fonua	Tonga	28.73
54	5	0	Ronan Wantenaar	Namibia	28.75
55	4	1	Tasi Limtiaco	Federated States of Micronesia	28.89
56	5	1	Michael Stafrace	Malta	29.14
57	4	3	Brandon Cheong	Aruba	29.34
58	4	6	Patrick Pelegrina Cuén	Andorra	29.35
59	4	4	Mario Ervedosa	Angola	29.38
60	4	7	Muis Ahmad	Bahrain	29.65
61	4	5	Alexandros Axiotis	Zambia	29.66
62	3	9	Kitso Matija	Botswana	30.21
63	2	4	Daniel Scott	Guyana	30.57
64	4	8	Alejandro Panting	Honduras	30.63
65	3	6	Abdulmalik Ben Musa	Libya	31.30
66	3	8	Slava Sihanouvong	Laos	31.51
67	2	9	Luke Haywood	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.62
68	2	3	Shuvam Shrestha	Nepal	32.02
69	4	9	Yaya Yeressa	Guinea	33.12
70	4	0	Clayment Lafiara	Solomon Islands	33.37
71	1	5	Alassane Seydou Lancina	Niger	34.29
72	3	2	Hamid Rahimi	Afghanistan	35.29
73	3	4	Gildas Koumondji	Benin	35.96
74	2	6	Abdelmalik Muktar	Ethiopia	36.02
75	3	3	Hollingsword Wolul	Vanuatu	36.39
76	2	8	Alie Kamara	Sierra Leone	36.76
77	2	5	Darshan Koffi	Togo	37.99
78	1	4	Ebenezer Osabutey	Ghana	38.18
79	1	3	Mamadi Jarju	Gambia	39.51
80	2	0	Houssein Gaber Ibrahim	Djibouti	39.83
	2	2	Tindwende Sawadogo	Burkina Faso	DNS
	3	1	Amini Harindimana	Rwanda	DNS
	3	5	Phillip Kinono	Marshall Islands	DSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 20:01.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	25.76	Q
2	2	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	Germany	25.87	Q
3	6	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	25.95	Q
4	4	Felipe Lima	Brazil	26.01	Q
5	5	Johannes Skagius	Sweden	26.18
6	8	Wang Lizhuo	China	26.20
7	7	Yan Zibei	China	26.22
8	1	Masaki Niiyama	Japan	26.27

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	João Gomes Júnior	Brazil	25.94	Q
2	4	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	25.95	Q
3	3	Huseyin Sakci	Turkey	25.97	Q
4	2	Oleg Kostin	Russia	26.00	Q
5	7	Nicolo Martinenghi	Italy	26.03
6	6	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	26.04
7	8	Ties Elzerman	Netherlands	26.40
8	1	Yasuhiro Koseki	Japan	26.70

Final

The final was held at 19:21.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	25.41	CR
	2	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	25.77	NR
	8	Felipe Lima	Brazil	25.80
4	6	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	25.83
5	7	Huseyin Sakci	Turkey	25.89
6	3	João Gomes Júnior	Brazil	26.02
7	5	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	Germany	26.12
8	1	Oleg Kostin	Russia	26.18